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BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
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You walk into a coin store and they

have exactly the coin you want, in the exact

grade you need and at a price you can afford

to pay. In addition, the store owner has

complementary coffee and sweet rolls for the

customers. what would you do?

1. Begin to bargain over the price of the coin

2. Have a cup of coffee and a sweet role to start

3. Buy the coin at the fair price listed and look
for other coins to buy

4. Faint
There once was a place called
Camelotimage

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  • soty27soty27 Posts: 1,956
    I get the coin in my hand ASAP so no one else walks in to look at it. I buy it ASAP if the price is fair and let them know what else I am looking for.
  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    Quick question first... Is SlipGate hanging around in back looking menacing? image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pick up the coin and start complaining about the holder it is in.image
    All glory is fleeting.
  • phehpheh Posts: 1,588 ✭
    I'm no dope. I immediately turn to the customer next to me and....

    image

    Then slowly walk out the door and find a place to hide for the next 20 years.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm no dope. I immediately turn to the customer next to me and....

    image

    Then slowly walk out the door and find a place to hide for the next 20 years. >>





    I get that look a lot even though I'm clad.
    Tempus fugit.
  • ajiaajia Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭
    Boy, am I a boring guy.....#3......well, maybe #1, always looking for a better deal. image
    image
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You walk into a coin store and they

    have exactly the coin you want, in the exact

    grade you need and at a price you can afford

    to pay. In addition, the store owner has

    complementary coffee and sweet rolls for the

    customers. what would you do?


    I'd do my best to keep dreaming. The way this one's going, Heidi Klum may be about to walk into the shop.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    I would ask the dealer for his best price, then buy the coin.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • themasterthemaster Posts: 676 ✭✭✭
    #2 first-neutralization period
    #1 next
    then #3

    Have a Great Day!
    Louis
    "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." Benjamin Franklin
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,606 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Look at the coin. Act disinterested. Put on my best poker face. Ask the dealer for his best price.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    4

    I finally woke back up.

    image
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • PCcoinsPCcoins Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    << <i>4

    I finally woke back up.

    image >>



    That's exactly what I was thinking
    "It is what it is."
  • TheNoostTheNoost Posts: 144
    Walk passed the sweet rolls because it is surely a trap or drugged or something then ask for their best price and see what else they have.
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Get the coin and put it away so it doesn't get fingerprints or coffee spilled on it. Then go for the complementary goodies.

    Shouldn't they be giving complementary jelly doughnuts image

    Ed
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    #4, then #3 and the sweet roll and coffee part of #2.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    3 first, then the coffee and sweet roll.
    JCM-Houston
    World Collection
    British Collection
    German States Collection
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    probably 2, 1 and 3 in that order. nosh, quibble and bite the bullet.
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭
    1. Begin to bargain over the price of the coin

    # 1......Obvious answer......never go to the grocery store when you are hungry...image ....or the coin storeimage...I'm not comparing food to coins, I'm comparing "want to need"

    It's a "state of mind"....................
    coins on ebay
  • eggboneeggbone Posts: 615 ✭
    Pick up the coin...Drink the coffee...eat the sweet roll. pay for the coin...image


    image
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have fun haggling over the price of an item for sale, but I would most likely to start with #2. I am usually fairly talkative and would likely start a conversation before asking about the price.
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
  • HalfDimerHalfDimer Posts: 35 ✭
    Grab a sweet roll and coffee, "accidentally" spill coffee, hide the coin in the sweet roll in the confusion, and walk out like nothing happened. Forget about coin, eat sweet roll and choke to death.

    Karma



  • TexasNationalsTexasNationals Posts: 3,837 ✭
    2 then 3

    Oh yeah when silver was above $20 an ounce, one of my dealers had 10 pizza's and soda's delivered for thr people waiting to sell thier coins, jewelry and stering scrap. he did well as I was on the phone locking in prices with Dillon.
  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    I'm going with #3... but #4 is a close second for the sweet rolls and coffee alone.

    Steve
    U.S. Air Force Security Forces Retired

    In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.

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